Ryokou

Ryokou is a documentary following the journey of Shane Perkins from his home in Adelaide post London Olympics to taking residence in Japan whilst competing in the 2012/13 Keirin competition.

http://vimeo.com/projucer/ryokoutrailer

Looks interesting.

On twitter Shane was trying to help the maker get more episodes done through crowd funding. The went over and above. http://www.pozible.com/index.php/archive/index/12071/description/0/0#.UJ-M_DNfTaw.twitter

Any word on when this is coming out??

Released in 5 chapters being published daily this week

Chapter 1 and 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN1YVoTp2sA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjot58I55GU

Nice. Cheers for posting.

^ agreed. good post.

Chapter 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSECw5pUbfA

Just managed to watch the first one at work, nice, cheers.

Tare there any books along similar lines I.e. forigenrer going kerin racing?

Why don't we have the gambling aspect of the keirin here in the UK?

It sure would bring some dosh into the velodromes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sylarmm4oJY

These have been brill so far. There's also a q & a via Skype that Perkins did with the directors on that YouTube channel. Talks about how strict kieren school is and the difference between his carbon bikes in aus and steel njs track frames amongst other things.

I really wish this was longer.

nice. good post.

Completely forgotten I'd started this thread and was planning to come and ask if anyone had been watching it..

I agree that the series, although short, was an absolute pleasure to watch.
Would love to see more of Shane and his exploits in Nippon!

Really enjoyed that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FdoxEXUNmk

This is great. Watched all 5 chapters in one sitting.

Where does one get the snazzy starry bibs? My commuting attire could do with a little jazzing up!

Watched the series last night. Fantastic insight into a world I know nothing about. Really well produced too.

Ridiculous amount of bike porn!